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o - nmitment rerna;ned unalterable; to the eonsi ‘ e;•ationot this heazlid no,t now ityetal,to call,theat tention of the House, his anolion rested- on the situ -Or:ground of the punishment.nowirifiicletYbeing sufficiently severe. When a .motion fot a similar., WaS brought forward on the,' 2th of last month, seVerll then.deelared they. would have ae a:rded, had it not been .on Or,. plea of his being. imprisoned illegally 5 waving, howeyer,-. that plea, nothing he intenued pying now „would _deprive him of a•-single- vote all he would urge would be, that the pu.)ishment was sufficient. 1-1 e should be extt:etriely•gladit he had an opportunity of explain shine things, and erog soiree . argunients •which had b-en adyn i ticed in the b.-hate on this ,subjed ; for the present lfe would not. " I should be sorry," said the ll6a, Baronet; " for the sake of any thing Ns'hiCh may codcern . rnysejl, to risk the sacrifice of the liberty of another for a single doy. - I-le could . not cont•eive what oppitiou could be made to his motion; . he certainly believed it was hitherto the pra6tice . . of the House not to listen any application in behalf of an offending, person, unless that individual had previously presented a pe tition expressive of sorrow and contritibn for his of- . fence. This he believed to be the usual,, but was not sure if it was the invariable mode of yroceeding. -What he should advance Won't', be nothing but his sense of justice, and hc bered the House to re= collea that maxim, " 'that the administration of justice should be teMpered, with mercy." He believed it not to be irr:ompatible. with the pri vileges -of the House that 'big individual was not' released sooner ;• still he could not well justify this right. Butcan thiS, or any other tritaunal, as- Slime the power of domineering over the - minds of others..; can it imperiously ,call on "them to abjure their errors.? On - what 'Principle this right was . maintained' he could not - imagine; but he would say that tribunals,' whkh in - any - times have pro ceeded thus to extort opiniot'i's`; eventually hive Made . hypocrites and not converts. He requested the House to.call• to its recolleelion - the papers which have beer. laid before it. - If an individuallias con tended that the Constitution' is - but' d Sitnple mo narchy, and that the Houses - of Parlianient arc but emanations from it; which may 'be taken aw-y without injury to Che retnainder k and the: . ,ll - 6ese thinksjt to be the greatest degradation which can be inflicted on an- individual, to "make - him .retract opinions,"and to be the instrurneni of his own . hn= miliation; if then, an individual has but the semi= merits and feelings of a mafi; what.severer punish ment can he endore than,an avowal-of the false hobd of - his sentiments,. With respea to the'doc trine of petitions, being nnacquainted with the laws. of the House, lie. would not say any thing - 3, but he recolle6ted in,former times the contrition, for an, ot fence was not only expressed at the Bar, but on the knees. Siach be "believed to be the custom till within'the last half century, since the case of .Alex ander Murray, this was not enforced. In 'an elec lion for Cornwall too k the offender nor only pressed bissorro'w at the bar, but before the. ledge at Assize ; but no recent instance of. severity appears. He entreated,the House to consider the punishment it had inflitted'rbn this person, now confined nearly two mom lis in the common gaol. of Newga(e ;. three weeks he had suffered for breach of refusal, and ,now almost five weeks for refusing to compy with petition,ng the Hotise ; and is conceived not only to be ati offence, but also of greater Magnitude than the first. If the House does not take this into consideration, at last, throgli'fortne of :rnipd, he may Confess sentiments which he dries net feel in .heart. Suppose that an inctivi(!ual hears that opinions ha% e been advanced which he conceives to be without foundation. ;Suppose that he thinks this 'House has no legal - power to commit to prison, and it from, mistaken quotations and authorities, as a Bri tish Subject, he thinks it has no right to do so, he Would - a,k any Gentleman 'Of tnieration, is his offence • Of such 'a magnitude as to sanaionlrs languishing in confinement till this HOuse .has no longer power to retain him ? Suppose he thinks that were he to • tetrad from the obduracy of his sentiments he should.. commit: a sin against the Constitution, he would ask if for Such an offence he should be puniShed with •such immense severity? Can it .be supposed that the . severe decree shall not be withdrawn till an individnd who obtains his subcistence in a Detiati rtg Society oys: his ‘homage-to the House of r2ownOrrs He there. fore would move, "That John Gale Jones be brought - to-morrow to the bar of the House,. in order to; be discharged," SeCtetary RYDER said, that.it was not his in tention to detain the House any time ; he could not however,,rcfrairr from Making- someohservations oa - 'what.had fallen from the Learned, Gentleman.. He had stated every thing clearly. If the `person- had been called to the bar, for the sole - purpoSe of re- • ceiving his- expressions of: contrition ; 11. cne vanced speculative. arguments,. and it had been... ordered that he should not be released until he had retraaed those opinions, then, all which had been said by the Hon. Gentleman would have been appli cable ; but the question was simply, whether •the time.of departure should be regulated by a stria observance of a rule ?—namely, until a petitlou ex . • pressive of sorrow,.had beet) presented; and, in (a&, • nothing More was required than whit had been al 7 • ready stated-at the bar. Another circumstance he - unchrstood was, that' an Hon. Gentleman whom he did not now ace in his pace, had aaually been ap 7 plied to some time ago, to present a petition from Gale Jones. He would not now be in the situation of a prisoner if he had 'thought fit ma petition a Month ago. He was not called'.ori to ackncy.vledge the justice of his punishment, but to express sorrow- for hiS ofFence. But now he seems to set the House at definice, and to hold himself out as a ,proof of its having abed wrong ; for these reasons he should oppose the motion. Lord ARCH: 1-IAMLTON : was of opinion -that if the sentiments which had. just been heard were agreed to, the distrust which 'subsists between -this . House and the Public would be much aggravated. Thu House should recollect . every circumstance of the present question :—Gale Jones had been the au- . thor of a publication which did not tend to insult the dignity - of, the House, but was an offence against Mr. York, yet -a breach of privilege tias voted. He now felt some satistaaion that the question was stript of every thing which could be ,_objeeed to it. He thought it rather extraordinary that an Hun. Gereleinau (Mr. 'Yorke)• should, biing •,forward a complaint Of what respeaed merely hitu7 sett, iisa.proot of contempt 4w,ainst the..Houso. it wasjon occasion of an intiu!ry which excited . the, greatust public atten!ion,' and which related to the finest eSped•ition i that ever left this country. -With respai to the merits of this circumstance, he agreed with his Learnt:id Friend; and had it in contempla tion to make a inOt'on relative to The Hon. Gentleman said, that .the ut,ual mode was to peti—t tion for discharge. This discharge he stood here to .demand; the principles on wh,ich it is refust - dcannyt be too soon annulled. Tice Vitvtleges of !he Heine are 4elicateiy tsutsceptible indeed,. when ,it is con tended that a decision of that House admits of : no redresS, and no :i . pp!al. Hewould not let't he sub- jest pass• without ot-clarino . his-opinioti on the'imwer of the House, "cointeaed ° as .it _was with the clues... tion ; in.extremes be conceived. it to be 'vet), initt rious ; - When a hi - each of Privilege is v , ted, punish ment necessarily follows ; but it thiS House; or any other Court, is gully of irregularity it may suffer in the opinion "of the people: •Ljause ofCom mons possesses great pow,rer; :the exertion of Whial might: not; hOweVer, .be prudent but : alien 'a House, which possesses the confidence of ,the'peo 7 pie, and evinces the sieates(li:: - (insixpotlal. talknts, cannot maintain its 'dignity, unles it tYJssesses the power of enforcing its orders, whatever its powkis may be, the Whole are exercised for the people." The PUnishMent he conceived to be sufficient ; he:hoped the House would not stand on the 'putittilio of ae kn,frwledgment, and make folly and obstinacy' the groundS of its jiidgtnent. Mr: FULLER said,- the ciestion in his mind was; whether the cum wad ptinit;herlor not. If he was, then it was - hard to call on him.:' Make ; any apology to the priyileges of 11,0 a... went were xvhatthe Public did not us defstand, ther were they unde, stood . by the Spealisr. The firstthing the Heuse should do, should he todefin6 its privileges, He Would put 6se Where a nervous Chairman . of Qui - 1J m t tee caked Upon a Speaker; and Made a complaint against a Member, who was obligee to Withdraw, and" who was tried, in, his ab seuce, and. afterwards,Co4ned • by order : of, the House, which occa,ioned : much misery, to himself, and probably the death of one of his tinnily, He Would conclude by observing, _that if 'a . certain re primand was; not ocpunged , from theJournalc., thougtv it might go down to posterity, - it Could not injure the individual, whoSe charaCier stood so high with the Public as the person to whom he allutled. ' .Lord FoxsTONr, rose to contradia the assertion of-J. G. Jenes having applied to a Member . to pre sent a petition.-;4le, alluded to the case . 6f Drake, iii behalf .of. whom he bad • presented. a petition to the House; his case was , being committed for pre varieation, and telling a story of a Member, then de , --I!tred .to beialsel it afterwards came out to be true, yet V still rt-maiiied in ,Newgate, though the only grounds on which he had been confined proved to be false. To the'present qUestion he conceived this circumstance to be applicable: Mc. CVRWEN was - of opinion- thit it "world be more honourable and consistent with the-dignity of the Houie, if it could be done without infringing. that dignity, to consent chit: Mr. Jones Should be dis charged.. He should be one of the last persons to stand up fur the discharge of . Mr. Jones, were it not tint when that person was at the Barlie,had admit ted the privileges of the House,confessed that he had iufriozed th-, oe . privileges, andthrew . 'himself ripen the House for mercy. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. .Ryder) had-stated,..tnat there was no prece dent for the discharge of any person committed ip gaol by this Hotise' ithotit petition. Admitting the truth of the Right-Honourable • Gentleman's: state ments, till there might , arrive times when the ne cessity for Making such a precedent :night. be urged. He thought the time .wa3 .now arrived when the House were a - ,lled upon to make it. Justice' de m3nded that the punistitneut ,which Mr. Jones so long endured should not be prbloraged. Withres . ; pea to what had been stated by an ,kion.-Ilaronet formerly, that .this House had not a leg to stand on, he. (.Mr. C.) mu-,t contend that sach poSltioh was false,; but at the same tune,, though he,-con denmed the Hon. Baronet for promulgating.. such do rings, he must say, that his opinion was, that the House did not possess that high deg,ce of confi.- dence which, . as .one of the .braoches, of the 1./.?gisla bare,. it ought to pOssess. - 13y steadily looking danger in the face .we might -avoid it. Toe.se were not, times to turn a deaf ear to the complaints of-- the people. For his part, he really believe , i that the great bulkiof toe nation Was attached to the Govern ivitiingly make great SaerifiLs iu support of it ; but it was impossible for any nialviA ho kiie.w what was passing in the country not to be aivare that the people were greatly disSatiStied, and that they required a - reform in the representation.-..-- He would only apre.ll to the Iron. Gentleman (Mr. Wilberforce), as the ;epresentative of 50,009 elec tors, - whether such - tva not the faCt, ? Whether the anxiety whieh . he generally expressed ,when the rights and liberties of the sUbjeCt -were.involved, was not a convincing proof that the'peOple were dis.satis fied ? He (Mr.e.) ,. was, however, against- every wild or chimerical idea of reform; he ‘V.shed to in fuse into the House the great landed indeiendent in terest, such as were nut dependent on a Minister.— .It,was that !3lipcio of prodigality, in , bestowing m ho nours, pensions; and places of emoluent upon per sons not meriting them, which he condemned and deplored, which were serious evils, and the 'causes of discontents. He wished to renew those old times when no doubt existed in the country.as to the ho nour Of Parliament,—when there wa, no such thing . . as erimination and recrimination bandied about from one side of the House to the other, but when .both sides consulted their own dignity and the welfare , of the nation. It was the spirit of accusation and recri mination which had done - more to induce the erv, that there was uo public virtue to be found among our Stataimen, though he did not coincide 'in that opinion ; for, he believed, there was still much vir tue to be found in public men. The Hon. Gentle man- having Made some further observations upon theie topics; conclirded with expressing his de termination to vote for the discharge of. Mr. G. Jones. • , Sir. THOMAS TuRTON declared that he exptEied Ministers would. ' , have been contented. ,with sup porting the privileges of tl:e douse to the extent of satisfying' its dignity, and that. beyond that-t,hey would not, have desired the House to go. Had not the unfortunate man by his long itnprison- . ment suffered punishment adequate to his ()deuce, and would it dot be cocsistent ti;e. c!iT.ity of thu House to put an end. to it.? • 'MLA w4s tore of 'his 'offence ? why, what had been often cemniitted and • passed unnoticed for years. The., offenchs Was certainly a gross breath of the privilegea - of -that Hoes' s, and 'Mr- jones had acknowledged SoenuctS.' Was not then the dignity of the House satisfied, Whit that -acktiowledgnient ?h - The Hon. -Bareset they 'alluded to the case, of 'General Cla 2vering, "who in his opinion had not been guilty of prevaSication, and who'conSeqUeOle - ,asiit the pre sent case, refused t&petitien, and contended that the House ought skew its justice, by liberating Mr. .Jotres, es, ho had suffeted enough. The MASTER' of the ROLLS thought there were twb qeestiens which required the consideration of . the. House. First; whether the individual now the . 'subject of 'debate had suffered' for, his offence a measure of punishment commensurate .with i hat offence, and secondly, whether • that being the case, tliere was or was not to beefoued on the Journals of the 'House any forni 'or lira iiiee a Q n pen which .would operate as a bar to 'his discharge.? To speak of the latter point; the Learned' Gentlemah .Con fesSech thal , he 'wished' he - was "much better ac quaieted with thehistOry of that practice than he seeas,hlle. wished to be informed whether`thera was hany established isrder to be found against the. dis charge 'of a • ee• seri under circumstances like 'Me.' Jones, or 'whether there was ahy uniform a.sage so as to justify the refeied to discharge bans ' He' was• unwitting to look at • the established usages, because, presuenptien was in their fat our, but he-could -pot think ,t they should , be so far supperted-as to - lead 1 . 0 Plain stash Peheahle injustice. Inc the present casts, when it wasetated that Mr. 'Jones could not be dise. chided until 'he - had petitioned, and when, .on the other hand, it had been also stated that he had made a confession of his .offence, he must own that he .was not prepakedlo' tollostr in any inquiry into all those ti consequences which it had been stated might arise in ehe event of Mr.: Jones not being dischaiged e The Right Hon. Seeretary had stated, that ilexes not ne cessary, in the petition, • to make an ackreee legtnent of the offence. 'Now tae would wish to pus a question :to'the Chair on that point, to know whether that was the established, usage, because, its that ceses his votewOuld be'governed by it. For the sake of the argument he would suppose it was. With respett to petitioning, tee sentences of this, House were for e an indefinite time_;" the prisoner might, present a petition et au early period.efter his commitment, in order to prodece an ,early disch'arge, and he .very naturally .throws into that petition those expressions of 'sorrow which he conceives will indace the House to, cotnply with the. prayer. Thus the practice of petitioning may have been introduced to obtain ediss charge sooner than otherwise the House would be dish posed to agree to. Hewes very loth to break in upon those usages, at d at .the same thne very loth togo to all the consequences which they might entail: tbr it might go to this extent.. Persons might be commuted at different periods of the Session for the sinew sort Of offence. A person- might be committed "at the corns menceenent of the Session e and 'not choosing to petis. don, and the House not being .disposed to relax its usage, 'the person may remain the Whole - of - the% Ses sion in prison e another person, for asireitereffetree; within three or lour days of the close of the'Session, might be coMmited, and petition ; and then- be (hie.- . charged,, One, therefore; lies in prison sax er.seven months, and the other, because - he/chooses to. pee thion, is liberated its three of four days. There was this diaereeee, thea t , in. ibe seeeasere punish , meet,. and 'all (LT:extent (supposing it to buso) on the iliezige of - Were e quessioes to be put to him '(WlitsMaster of the : Rolls), .`„` 1)() you think this 111,L1 has .suffered- ail the .punishment which the offence demands,?".. I should answer, I think he has.", , Ithlsas been Said, tight follow ' up the punishMent f r a longer period. Why pu , niSli a Man, pot - for what he hasbeen foetid guilty of; of a cridie on which no sentence: had been- pas sed, but for the offence of 'ssisstinecy, an offence which is. not to Ue found in the caialN,tie of offences cognizable by ,this House. He is to be punished for something which this Houss, requires him to do, bet Wl.ich hr. objefts to. This' was a, species of puniilopent which is ,certainly unknown - to. the • erireinal jurisprudence of the country. What slid irsignify to the House his confessions of sorrow ? What . it he should, .under the idea of regaining his liberty*, bring e forced confession ? Was any thing gain:ed by keeping hint, in the- event of his refusal so to do, three or lour Months loneer in prison ? Wei . any thing gained by the confessiOti ? Were • the privileges of the kr3llS:3 so mech in danger, that they wanted the mighty aid of Gaieebeses's Petition . to support then). If he should be discharged; apd fotind'atia ri 'offending, might not he, by the. s tine authothy, be again Liken s up. and punished ? The LearnetteGentleinint was of opinion, that the 'mere abstaioing from petitiening ought not to weigh. with (he House in detaining JoneS its prison beyond the present time. The corisettience of petitioning was admitted . . by most prisoners; becafite in -so doing 'they were sure lb obtain their release. If the House • thought the punishment already endured was staf-; ficient, he thought they ought to discharge Were he to be asked in this 'case to what period *Jones should be confined, whether a montle,esix weeks, or two . months, he . should say in all con science two mOntlni was punishment enetigli h ; and being Of that opinion, shotild vote for his 'discharge. He was not actuated in giving such a vote - by mu tiveS of fear ; nor, on the other hand, was he to do an aQ of injusetceenerely to shew hi,s courage; ell he desired the House to consider' with him, was . how they ought to administer sebstantlei justice, and that was to be administered instils case by dids' charging Mr;Jortee. The SPEAK EA conceived, that 'as he - had been al -1 hided to, it might be - the pleasure- of the House' that he eliould' state the course 'of proceeding in cases' like the present. He would state what he had Learnt from. the Journals of Parliament as to he praQice of the HoUse.' The course generally persUed differed in respect to corrimitmeets to the custody of the Serjeaut at Arms and iogaol: In: the instance of commitment 'to the Serjeant's' custody, petitions prep-u etoryrt dirlettie, was the preence in some cases; and iii' Others the per- 1 son in custody has been dis Charged :on elate ments made to the . HouSe. ~The Members of a corismittee, , before whom, ,perhaps, the person committed, a wiinesshact refused. to give evidence s , and conducted hensell in an nit ecomune way;. but beieg'senSible of his error, hits apologieed to the Committee, 'and they have ieterceded ‘k i th the Htiase, by sta.ine that lre hid Lleporte'd lernselr pso - perly. there was a case of this kind of a rzi tf the name of `Alcock, a year or two back, he • '4l - and Was discharged the same night. In the , case of Peter Stuart, the primer, three or four years. back; who wai sent for a breach of • privilege to the custody of the Serjeant, and having petitioned, discharged. 'Viola respectto commitments to goo! , the general course was, not to releas. without ,pet! tiOn. ,Be did tot fihd. any rule to the crintrarl the practice appeared uniform. 'As to . the sort -- petition, it was in many` cases various, as the peti_ . - tioners some instances thought the:best mode to Adopt for their enlargement, but the petiti ,, ng i". • variably. acknowledged that the party pelitioniog bad otlended against the privileges of the Hous e ' It wasllot required that• the petition-r shotild_r itro the. particulars of that offence, but merely t"" tt he should :express his sorrow • for it. These wer e the modes or proceeding and practice of the Ho°s so far as he had been enabled to ascertain from the Journalt..• • • The CHANCELLoR of-the Excirmuna was 0.- tlidt Cie tuitorni- practice of the House. had b , =e" as stated - by the Speaker so c• •rredly—t hat witb res : peel to persons committed to gaol ; they.mta,t'l''' titiou, before the House could .entertain the • cla es ; tion of discharging them. The que-:tion wgs not whether a petition must be presented, but wb et ' there were in this case circumstances, and whether the times were such as to induce the House to thi n!*: that they would act wisely in depart ieg from the ' form practice. The Right Hon. Gentleman cetu see nothing either in the caie or in the times to thy hithin thinking that the prs•lit was tie pe li° in which it was absolutely expedent to make -a i parture from the established usage. The L' irn fd Gentleman , Mho brought forward the motioA Made use of a great deal of what he . considered or "; gurnent, to induce the HonSe to agree wi Ii hung He . had partrcolarly- argued a;,alnst what he &en' the injustice•ofeallingon persons ti . ) re: ant any th e° , retical or hereticalopinions winch they tni,Jit• ha' rf held. Against all those arguments, I imust bi I : - state that there' were.' no - "theoreticat'oPiniotts . w l ' it could be giver) up I the . Aid hot. make `ii such call, Ail teat was7desiied was, that in r iot forin . .ll4r. Jones should do that Which he had do alrevOy, ands hch he ought to ed before he c an entitled to bedtscharged. Having confessed t e• erro rk s , on what principle . i.4 it nowpretgliciedohas 'to retif;Bt.ii repeat saiementatie - acknowleu Inept •which, When at . the Bar he. No vivantart.. made? NV,ts it bec:aus:r he found it to b e II UnitOrm praccice of the House? he not v4 lo :" i '„ e • t b ir, say "J have erred, and I ;brow myself on t mercy of this assembly." • Was it too 'tou ch • require that he should- --now -do----that—b., .. Y7 4 t ti .wincii 'he ten - rd — air clotiriCeball'Y question is, whether: he should -be kept it ) I Son, failing to comply - with the fOrnis of the Hot • With respect to that, he , rnust stp that his acknt 0•1;.. tn ent was an answer- to those tot e men who sideted that .his refusal was - perhaps the effe 6 ,' ,• some workings of conscience. His answer 414 # )11. proof that he now dealt. Icontanacionaiy by :11 House, by refusing to confirm that which-his! science permitted him :to aeknowleg",e whdt? loft' brbeght to the bar. It was, in short, nothing con,iiniapc, a that contempt - and ciontul i and mat 4; all the difference in the case. 11 , month pas_t_Aif. ,Jones, :had- been told, thatit deported Ilintse:f properly, .and petitioned, he n be dischaiged the next day. In any case 0 . not: might he said on the duration of runts!nncot ; • 0 , 9 in the present, when the party had ill,' 01;u" -' ,OO relieving himself, by coming to the House usual form, the House were, on his refusal to ply with' toe form, obliged look 'at 'tile .S 11(- . and ascribe it fo its tour causecontumacy• • respeCt so the caves of General Ga. ering, • •`,lB-ji .Santion and' Ijrake, those were crises ern, for they had stated something El-e, aod quently must in their pe!;tioes admit it ; bt. l ' llr •,. ,V)ties had in the first instance admitted MI S and w,as•now . desireS - fZienfbody that admissi" ;" the petition, which he 'refused to do. t '! ' ► I • I. I any thing either•in the times or .. the cases should make it necessary tOr the.,House to from the usual fortns ? Were the riv.ms, the "P-t:t..l = leges,.and the laws of the House to be clips ? „it ii becoMe necessary to diminish them ? - Hon. Gentleman agreed with his 'L e arned- ' o f 'that if the refusal to liberate. Jones was so tit injusnee,' it ought not to be persevered iii ; was not so. 'ln hiS opinion, the subinission offender ttiar.lera:,principal ingredient ha the di.sclOrb - 5 • •The Hobse would • see with what .temper p ,;.• disposed to resist. the forms,Of the House ; a - ing no reason to induce the. House to . deparr•Wte . its forms, the Right Hun. Gentleman shotil4 - against the motion. ' • " • Mr. WHITBREAD was disposed to think fa'O r ~t t1, 1 : . . , House in continuing the impris onmen t would belt-eating him with great and c ruelr. 4 o - A . - - tire, and be ptinishing with a degree of s e v erit y , ,v, exceeding . his offence.-;—The Right. Hun- * i v: man had been guilty of great injustive to ••• I • 6 n'°„t"... putting his offence on the -shone ground as- 111 ' , :;: 5 -' fence of a person prevaricating at the 'Bar, ther' - '7 h e no analogy 'between the cases. Mr.W; !read ; r r .onfessiOn of,Jones at the 13 . r, and insistad • after" tiie man had acknowledged the offell'c- 6 ' House ooglit not to have acted so cruegy_in him to prison ;it :was an nndne exercise. of"; 1 power which they exercis e d.--,Th Jr , e Right , )''') G.:ritlerain 'had said Jones hadretused to petiti6ll, pr . '" b l e til, nB : s o k r ed io . d w ee d cl o w it h : at r l i V g - 1 1 ) 1 7 t ha d d it t i he V flo l u i VO ,any thing of him with resped 'to the 'courst i , j : meant •to- - pdrsoe? . •How was it possible I,7nrany ti 'man being to kno:.; that a second contriti on- 4 c l i 3 pected by • the-House? Was - it fair to. s3l,oos' any reasonahle bf:ings would expect such a procce';,. fog ? the Right:Hun. Gentleman, iip the ' flt ," spirit of intolerance, says—" No, I will apt be .c° i 3 6'' tent with , his once having expressed Co atai5i0 9 ' . 1 . 4 ,,,,- shall again come before the House, repeat his we' , and prove that h e • has not • changed opio ioll ,i;ri The Hon. Gentleman was glad to kno vt.ntliC Hon. Gentleman's articles Of faith, W ►41;0 1 these: what he says ;o s he true ylsterdar „..so Come forward to-day and' voila for ..-agal°' suppose'Such a thing a, a reform. ttion t ° " ;0 11- - - place, and that a man ilia not believe in tranlo bs r cf : Cation, and that man w a s ca ll e d b e f ore i s C°P . o• Inquisition, who committed forhim Ws W 3ll- f nth ; :. hot that. afterwards, either fro or men, he had changed his opiti 4)" ,